Letters to the editor — September 6

Updated
3:14 pm CDT, Thursday, September 6, 2018

Thank you Commissioner Meador

To the editor:

We, the residents who live on Bobville Road in Dobbin, Texas, would like to sincerely thank Commissioner Mike Meador, Pct 1, for replacing our 20 year old road. It is wonderful and greatly appreciated! Your crew did a fabulous job while accommodating the residents.

Clara Lynch

Montgomery

$200K on Christmas lights?

To the editor:

I noticed in the Courier, the City of Conroe will spend about $200,000 to string Christmas lights in downtown.

I was wondering how they were going to spend all the expense free tax money from April Sound

JC Pappy Johnson

Montgomery

A patriot forgotten

To the editor:

Senator John McCain was known for trying to unite this country throughout his career. Our president said he was not a hero because he was captured. The White House flag was not lowered to half-mast until there was a public outcry. Apparently the people responsible for the giant flag at the Regency on FM 1488 near I-45 feel the same way and will not lower the flag either. What a disgrace!

Ron Hosmer

Tribute To CAPT John McCain, USN

To the editor:

John McCain was shot down over Vietnam in October 1967 after completing over 20 missions. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. While McCain fought in Vietnam our fearless President got four college draft deferments. After graduating in 1968 Trump visited a doctor who provided him with a letter stating he had bone spurs in a heel and this enabled him to get a medical deferment from the draft. He later said the bone spurs were “minor”.

CAPT McCain’s passing brings back memories of my Naval service which culminated in June 1967, and I recall McCain was almost killed in July 1967.

On July 29, 1967 an electrical power surge occurred in a Phantom F-4B parked on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal operating off Vietnam. A Zuni rocket shot across the flight deck and struck an external fuel tank of a A-4 Skyhawk piloted by LCDR White or LCDR McCain. McCain and the other pilots were able to escape from their planes as jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited and triggered a chain-reaction of bomb explosions that killed 134 sailors and injured 161.

It was one of the worst Naval accidents since WWII.

Donald Moskowitz

Londonderry, NH

Democrat Hypocrites

To the editor:

I have been trying for years to get Democrats to see themselves as the hypocrites they are. They just can’t see it. One of the biggest hypocrites, Tim Doherty, just responded to my last letter by writing a scathing reproach of President Trump, calling him a public philanderer and adulterer. I am certain Doherty, being the liberal Democrat he is, supported Jack Kennedy and Bill Clinton for president. So, once again, I will remind Doherty that when he supports someone who is a greater philanderer and adulterer than the one he is criticizing, he is being a hypocrite. And, just because he supported Kennedy and Clinton, I am sure he does not condone adultery.

But, worse, President Trump said he didn’t do it. And, he has not been charged with doing it, much less proven to have done it. Last I read, the sleazy lawyer who said he would sue President Trump on behalf of Daniels has found his case is dead. Not only that, Daniels said on TV several times it didn’t happen. That was before she found she might make a bundle out of it. In our country, you are innocent until proven guilty. In any case, it didn’t take place in the White House, if you know what I mean. When I said Trump followers don’t care, I meant and said, we don’t care about the frivolous stories and nonsense that are the focus of Dems and the media. I didn’t say anything about condoning adultery. Doherty made that up. We recognize Dems are a bunch of sleaze balls who would concoct any untrue story to make Trump look bad, like Russian collusion.

It is clear to me the Dems and media focus on these meaningless stories as a diversion to what is happening in our country. We are having wild success in almost every area. Most individuals from the lowest paid to the highest are experiencing great things as our economy surges. And instead of supporting and trying to help, Dems and the media are on a mission to get Trump. I submit to you it is all about losing the election. Dems are like a bunch of kids jumping up and down crying because they didn’t get their way. I think they want the country to fail so they can get rid of Trump and saddle us with Socialism.

Jerry Bryan

Conroe

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